{"id":22330,"date":"2024-08-27T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=22330"},"modified":"2024-08-28T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T23:08:16","slug":"the-life-and-death-of-john-houghton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2024\/08\/the-life-and-death-of-john-houghton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Death Of John Houghton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gospel Standard 1866:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Death. On August 1st, 1865, aged 47, John Houghton.<\/p>\n

He was often engaged to preach at different places, and should have gone to Chorley at the time he was taken ill. He was a subscriber to the “Gospel Standard” for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

During his short illness, (not a fortnight,) he was tried very much by the enemy of souls; so much so that he said he thought that Satan came to him with a net to catch him, and he drew up his net, “but,” he said, “I was not in the net. He knocked me down, but he could not wound me, for I had a helmet of brass on my head.” Sometimes he would say he had had to fight some hard battles; and then I heard him pray fervently: \u201cO Lord, do thou undertake for me; and should the enemy come in like a flood, do thou lift up thy standard against him. O,” he said, “this is not called the swellings of Jordan for nothing. A prayer in the hand and none in the heart would never do here. What should I have done now, if I had no hope beyond the grave?” Blessed be God, he said, he had not his religion to seek on his death-bed.<\/p>\n

Sankey, near Warrington, April 20th, 1866.<\/p>\n

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He was often engaged to preach at different places, and should have gone to Chorley at the time he was taken ill. He was a subscriber to the “Gospel Standard” for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

During his short illness, (not a fortnight,) he was tried very much by the enemy of souls; so much so that he said he thought that Satan came to him with a net to catch him, and he drew up his net, “but,” he said, “I was not in the net. He knocked me down, but he could not wound me, for I had a helmet of brass on my head.” Sometimes he would say he had had to fight some hard battles; and then I heard him pray fervently: \u201cO Lord, do thou undertake for me; and should the enemy come in like a flood, do thou lift up thy standard against him. O,” he said, “this is not called the swellings of Jordan for nothing. A prayer in the hand and none in the heart would never do here. What should I have done now, if I had no hope beyond the grave?” Blessed be God, he said, he had not his religion to seek on his death-bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":22329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1716],"tags":[1232,1226],"class_list":["post-22330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-houghton","tag-baptist-history","tag-gospel-preachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22331,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions\/22331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}